Because when you can charge double the price for a midrange GPU, of course you're gonna rehash it!

Someone convince Apple to get into the GPU business. Gotta say I'm damn impressed by the little M1 in my company's MBA. Can run tons of stuff on high vs low end nVidia or AMD which can barely handle low/medium. If Intel does something similar, I'll tip my hat to them. The future market will be determined by who secures the midrange at a viable price. Desperately need a 3rd or 4th competitor.

NC37Because when you can charge double the price for a midrange GPU, of course you're gonna rehash it!

Someone convince Apple to get into the GPU business. Gotta say I'm damn impressed by the little M1 in my company's MBA. Can run tons of stuff on high vs low end nVidia or AMD which can barely handle low/medium. If Intel does something similar, I'll tip my hat to them. The future market will be determined by who secures the midrange at a viable price. Desperately need a 3rd or 4th competitor.

Agreed, we need a compelling card sub $300. I am not even asking for anything like the original 6800 that was $99 and had 1GB of VRAM. Which made the 7950 for $199 an academic purchase. Unfortunately Games have become much more demanding and the Industry is pumping 4K even though there is no GPU that can saturate the real HDMI 2.1 spec (40 Gb/s) to provide a consistent 120FPS much less DP 1.4, but yet we have to pay 6x more for 1440P high when that was achievable with the same 7950 or God forbid 2 of them in Crossfire which may have cost you $400. If any of them (I feel Intel and AMD, depending on ARM) decide to actually have lines with all AMD, Intel or Nvidia/ARM solutions (Laptops, PCs....consoles maybe). it could lead to very interesting times for DIY. As enthusiasts like us here on TPU we could become the bell weather for these same companies.

My only fear for Apple is they would be even worse than Nvidia when it comes to sharing in a space where open has been great for us users.

It would be cheeky but humorous if PowerColor would lean hard into their Devil branding and go with a 6660XT Red Devil and 6969XT Liquid Devil edition, which would just be specially binned chips with better performance than the "regular" batches, somewhat like like special silicon used for the "6900XT Ultimate" editions of some 7nm 6900XTs (the XTXH bins). I mean, if they're just going to add xx50 to whatever just to denote a higher performance variant, why not just just be cheeky about it and pick 60 and 69 instead and fully lean into the not-exactly-subtle theme, since it's not like AMD would further sub-divide into single-digit increments, and bigger numbers tend to sell better to the masses.

On a similar note, I'd like to see Sapphire do an Atomic variant of the "6950XT" as another waterblocked GPU similar to the Liquid Devil and other similar equivalents, while also upgrading a theoretical "6950XT" Toxic to a high-end Hybrid AIO card with QDCs from EK or AC for expandability and upgradeability (able to substitute a larger radiator if the case permits).

Then ASUS could also follow with reviving the ARES branding, for waterblocked cards and later, dual or multi-GPU single cards (like the chiplet GPUs AMD is said to be working on), that are specially binned as well.

ChomiqFaster memory, I know one group that will be happy with this.

Availability has been the issue with AMD 6000-series. Getting two 6600XT cards for $1200 is a lot easier than getting one 6800XT for $1500. Scale that up and try to buy 16x 6800XT cards and you're asking for a unicorn ride to Atlantis compared to buying 32 6600XT cards which are very much available in large quantities.

Yeah, there's more platform cost overhead with running twice the number of cards, but GPUs are getting so expensive that overheads are damn-near negligible at this point.

Faster RAM will probably bump the hashrate of a 6800-series up to 72MH/s but it will also likely cost more, so hashrate/$ and ROI are likely to break even at best, and more likely it's going to be a downgrade.